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Sunday, September 13, 2015

David Olson Ulrich - Management Professor - HR and OB

David Olson Ulrich (born 13 September 1953) is a university professor and management consultant. Ulrich is a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He has written books in the areas of human resources and leadership. Ulrich is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources.

In 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from HR Magazine in 2012 for being the "father of modern human resources."

Dave Ulrich has been ranked the #1 Management Educator & Guru by BusinessWeek and was named the most influential person in HR by HR Magazine for three years.

Ulrich was born in the town of Ely, Nevada, but grew up in Oregon. He attended high school in Kansas.

Ulrich completed his undergraduate degree in University Studies in five semesters and began graduate school in Organizational Behavior in Brigham Young University. He completed his doctorate in business at UCLA.

Dave Ulrich’s research has addressed questions on how organizations add value to customers and investors through both leadership and strategic human resource practices. In collaboration with Wayne Brockbank and Jon Younger, Ulrich has articulated how the modern HR organization can be organized into shared services, centers of expertise, and business partners. He was also involved in research about the competencies required for successful HR professionals. He also made efforts to shape thinking on how to transform HR practices so that they are aligned to customer needs. In the leadership area, Norm Smallwood and Ulrich have worked to focus on the outcomes of effective leadership; how effective leadership will increase customer share by creating a leadership brand within the company. Their work also indicates that investing in leadership will increase shareholder value.